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FRAGMENTS:

That the caterer's men have gone off "on a bust,"-

This comes with consecutive Junes.

But a pleasanter feature I have to narrate.

While friends o'er the edibles talk,

While the parson is forcing a battle on fate

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By eating warm "ice " with a fork,

Belinda, by Spriggins, is taken in state

Down stairs, for a bit of a walk.

They stroll round the Yard, and evade as they can

The canker-worms' pendulous swing.

What they say is a secret, unless you should scan

In her face, that he asks her something

Which she does n't refuse. Then the ardent young man

Slips on her forefinger a ring.

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